List of Wonder Woman supporting characters


This is a list of Wonder Woman supporting characters.

Major characters

In alphabetical order.
CharacterFirst appearanceDescription
AmazonsAll Star Comics #8 A nation of eternally youthful and super-powerful women. Notable Amazons include General Antiope, oracle Menalippe, weaponsmith Io, would-be Wonder Woman Orana, and sorceress Magala.
Artemis of Bana-MighdallWonder Woman #90 Brash champion of a lost tribe of Amazons, who successfully challenged Diana for the title of Wonder Woman and now is a major leader among the Amazons.
Etta CandySensation Comics #2 Rotund, chocolate-loving, plucky, and fearless leader of the Beta Lambda sorority at Holiday College, Etta was Wonder Woman's close friend and sidekick. She later became secretary for General Blankenship of the War Department, during the period that the comics series shifted to World War II stories to reflect the first season of the Wonder Woman TV series. Post-Crisis, Candy was an Air Force officer and later agent in the Department of Metahuman Affairs. Etta was Wonder Woman's best friend and became Steve Trevor's wife but was later retconned into a relationship with Doctor Barbara Minerva.
Gods of OlympusAll Star Comics #8 The gods of Classical Greek mythology, worshiped by the Amazons. Originally, the patron goddesses worshiped by the amazons were Aphrodite and Athena. Post-Crisis, they were joined by Hestia, Artemis, and Demeter.
Queen HippolytaAll Star Comics #8 The queen of the Amazons and Wonder Woman's mother, who fashioned Diana from clay, which was given life and powers by the gods. She has at times, taken up the mantel of Wonder Woman in her daughters absence.
Julia and Vanessa KapatelisWonder Woman #3 A Harvard scholar, Julia and her daughter Vanessa became some of Wonder Woman's earliest friends in the post-Crisis timeline. Diana spent years with Julia and Vanessa, forming a familial bond while she was away from Themyscira. Vanessa would later be tortured and brainwashed into becoming the super villain Silver Swan but was able to recover with the help of Diana.
MalaAll Star Comics #8 Wonder Woman's closest friend among the Amazons, Mala was the first runner-up in the contest to determine who would enter Man's World as Wonder Woman and later became the head of the Amazons’ therapeutic center Reformation Island.
NubiaWonder Woman #204 Originally Diana's long-lost twin sister who was raised by Ares. Later incarnations have seen Nubia as a demon-hunter and resident of Themyscira. She has held the title of both 'Wonder Woman' and Queen of Themyscira.
Paula von GuntherSensation Comics #4 Wonder Woman's first recurring nemesis, the Baroness Paula Von Gunther was a ruthless Nazi spymaster, evil scientist, and femme fatale who later became Wonder Woman's close friend and chief Amazon scientist. Later adaptations would update Paula into being the child of Neo-Nazi terrorists rather than a Nazi herself.
General Phil DarnellSensation Comics #3 Col. Darnell supervised Steve Trevor's work at Military Intelligence and hired Diana Prince as his secretary. Later, he was head of the Air Force's Special Assignments Branch, tasked with intervening in crises before they develop. This character was replaced with General Blankenship in the first season of the 1970s television series. He was reinstated as Colonel Darnell in the 2017 theatrical film adaptation.
PhilippusWonder Woman #1 General of the Amazons and one of Queen Hippolyta's most trusted warriors as well as her lover. Philippus is one of the amazons responsible for training Princess Diana. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. Philippus was not seen in this new timeline, but she did return following the May 2016 DC Rebirth as a prominent amazon.
Steve TrevorAll Star Comics #8 An intelligence officer in the United States Army during World War II whose plane crashed in the isolated homeland of the Amazons, Capt. Trevor became the paramour of Wonder Woman while, unbeknownst to him, working at U.S. Military Intelligence alongside Wonder Woman in her secret identity, Diana Prince. Post-Crisis, Trevor was an Air Force officer and war veteran. Steve Trevor was also the son of Diana Trevor, aviatrix who crashed onto the Amazons’ island home and died in a battle to save the Amazons. Later designated Deputy Secretary of Defense and then leader of the Department of Metahuman Affairs, Trevor married Etta Candy and remained Diana's close friend. After the events of Rebirth, Steve returned as a young man in origins similar to his Golden Age counterpart, with as romantic connection to Diana, although they would eventually part ways.
Wonder GirlWonder Woman #105 Wonder Girl is the name of four separate characters in the DC Universe. The first was Diana as a child, called Wonder Girl during the Silver Age. Later, Wonder Girl was a codename used by Donna Troy, Diana's adoptive sister, when she joined the Teen Titans. Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark, daughter of Zeus and Helena Sandsmark, became the third Wonder Girl and joined Wonder Woman on several adventures. A young Brazilian Amazon by the name of Yara Flor was given the title of 'Wonder Girl' by Diana after she defended Themyscira from monsters, although she largely acts independently from Diana.

Other supporting characters

Separated in chronological clusters, by major periods in the publication history of the Wonder Woman comic book.

Pre-Crisis

Characters who appeared before the continuity-altering series Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Golden Age

  • Queen Desira - A Venusian queen.
  • Lila Brown - Steve Trevor's secretary, who instantly disliked Diana Prince, she was killed by Doctor Psycho.
  • Eve Brown - Lila Brown's sister.
  • Holiday Girls - Etta Candy's Beeta Lambda sorority sisters at Holiday College.
  • Oscar Sweetgulper - Etta Candy's spindly, nerdy boyfriend, from Starvard College.
  • Dean Sourpuss - The grim, heavy-handed dean of Holiday College.
  • Professor Zool - A brilliant, though absentminded, eminent scientist at Holliday College.
  • Hard Candy - Etta Candy's father, who owns a ranch.
  • Sugar Candy - Etta Candy's mother.
  • Mint Candy - Etta Candy's brother.
  • Draska Nishki - A government spy and blackmailer.
  • Marya - A Mexican Mountain Woman who Wonder Woman helped get into Holliday College

    Impossible Tales

  • Bird-Boy - A suitor of Wonder Girl, and a member of a race of bird people.
  • Mer-Boy - An Atlantean suitor of Wonder Girl.
  • Mr. Genie - Wonder Tot's magical friend, from the 5th Dimension of Zrfff, the home dimension of Mister Mxyzptlk.

    Powerless Era

  • Cathy Perkins - A teen runaway who worked in Diana Prince's boutique
  • Drusilla - An Amazon who helped Diana save Themyscira from an attack invasion by Ares
  • I Ching - A blind Chinese mystic who became Diana Prince's mentor
  • Jonny Double - A down-on-his luck private investigator
  • Tim Trench - A shady private detective
  • Tony Petrucci - A neighborhood supporter

    Modern Era

UN/New York
  • Justice League of America - Group of super-heroes formed to face new threats against mankind with Wonder Woman as a founding member
  • The Kravitzes - Abner and his mother owned the apartment building Diana and Steve Trevor lived in.
  • Morgan Tracy - The head of the UN Crisis Bureau, later revealed to be the Prime Planner of the Cartel, which was hired by Kobra to kill Wonder Woman
  • Tod - A neighbor in Diana's apartment building.
    NASA/Houston
  • Mike Bailey - A fellow astronaut trainee who dated Diana and was secretly Ten of the Royal Flush Gang
  • Stacy Macklin - A fellow astronaut trainee, who later became the supervillain Lady Lunar.
  • Conrad Starfield
  • '''General Novak'''
    Washington, DC
  • Atalanta - The leader of a lost tribe of Amazons who live in the Amazon River jungle.
  • Glitch - An alien "gremlin" who only Steve and some children could see.
  • Keith Griggs - A hotshot Air Force major who joined the Special Assignments Bureau and was romantically interested in Diana Prince.
  • Lauren Haley - An Air Force lieutenant hired by Special Assignments.
  • Howard Huckaby - A hopelessly clumsy, wonky aide to Sen. Covington, and Etta's boyfriend.
  • Lisa Abernathy - The daughter of Sen. Abernathy, and network news reporter covering Washington.
  • Mother Juju - An old mystic.
  • Sen. Russell Abernathy - A disgraced former senator who was landlord for Diana and Etta.
  • Sen. Brad Covington - A powerful, media-savvy senator, chair of subcommittee on Central American affairs, with an agenda to aggressively investigate Special Assignments at the urging of a mysterious campaign donor with a grudge against Gen. Darnell; secretly, lover of TV news reporter Lisa Abernathy, unknown to his wife, Mona.
  • Sofia Constantinas - Appeared in the pre-Crisis adventures of Wonder Woman as a reformed Greek terrorist who moved to Paradise Island for Amazon training, where she learned the secrets of Wonder Woman's missing memories.

    Post-Crisis

Boston

  • Brian Elliott - Computer genius who attempted to become a supervillain but was slowly persuaded to become a friend and ally
  • Camille Sly - A long-lived but still spry former actress who was known in her day as the "Female Fairbanks" for her roles in swashbuckling movies, who rented rooms in her boarding-house to both Diana and Donna Milton
  • Donna Milton - Believed herself to be a devious lawyer, always looking out for her own selfish interests and greed, who was the lover of Ares Buchanan and a spy in Wonder Woman's life but gradually became Diana's friend, until Diana deduced that she was Circe, so submerged into the Donna Milton persona that she had forgotten her real identity.
  • Ed Indelicato - An inspector on the Boston police force.
  • Isabelle Modini - A Boston police officer who initially held a grudge against Diana for leaving her hanging above a street while Diana attempted to talk down a heavily armed villain, but who became Diana's friend after that villain later gave up his own life to save hers.
  • Micah Rains - A slacker detective whose "office" was merely a barstool until Diana became his partner.
  • Myndi Mayer - A public relations executive who was Diana's representative.